Sket Dance 64

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[Insert text: @ the Student Council office!!]
Tsubaki: Without further ado... // ...let us begin the regular Student Council meeting!
Agata: Like I told you, Mimorin - when all's said and done, it's cash that makes the world go round.
Mimori: That's simply not true. The most important thing to have is friends.
Michiru: Oh, that's right, Daisy-chan... didn't some guy in your class ask you out or something recently?
Tsubaki: ...............
Daisy: Rejected.

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Sket Dance
Chapter 64: Panic In The Principal's Office
Tsubaki: QUIET!!!
[Insert text: SHUT UP AND LISTEN~~~~!!]
Tsubaki: We are the Student Council of this school! // Could you think about what that means for a moment?! We are supposed to be setting an example to the entire student body! // And for what purpose? / To create a better campus for everyone!!
Agata: A - All right, all right......
Tsubaki: Now then, as usual, let's start by hearing what everyone has to report. // Starting with General Affairs. // Shinba-san, if you would.

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Michiru: I had a student come to me with an apology for accidentally breaking a light with a football whilst practicing kickups in the ground floor corridor of the clubroom building. // I gave him a stern warning, and replaced the light in question. That's all.
Tsubaki: Honestly! Playing in the corridors... inexcusable!! I suppose it was one of those blockheads from the Soccer Club?!!
Michiru: Ahh... / No. // It was the Sket-dan.
Tsubaki: What...?!! // What is WRONG with those idiots?!! I'm going to go and scold them some more!!
Michiru: Come, now...
Mimori: Come, now...
Daisy: Come, now...
Agata: Come, now... // Oh, yes... while we're at it, I have a report to make.
Tsubaki: You...?
Agata: Well, nobody else was around at the time, so I heard the student out myself. // He came to apologise for accidentally crushing some flowers on the school grounds; apparently he lost his balance and fell over while practising the Shiranui-style sumo entrance by the flowerbed.
Tsubaki: Who on Earth was THAT?!!!

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Agata: A boy in a red, horned cap by the name of Yamada Tarou.
Tsubaki: THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A FAKE NAME!! // That has to have been Fujisaki!! / Don't tell me you've forgotten him?!!
Agata: Ah, I see... Well, I was half-asleep, you see.
Flashback!Agata: [aside]...I see... Yamada-kun...[/aside]
Tsubaki: Could you please refrain from napping in the Student Council office?!
Daisy: I also have a report to make. // The doorknob of the girls' changing rooms was broken, so I replaced the door.
Tsubaki: The doorknob was broken?! I suppose this was Fujisaki's doing again...!!
Daisy: No. // It was me.
Tsubaki: It was YOU?!!
Daisy: The door was badly-fitted. It irritated me, so I broke it.
Tsubaki: Don't do things like that!! You can't go around breaking things whenever you feel like it!! / And don't just go around replacing doors, either!!
Mimori: Is it not acceptable to just go around replacing things, then...?
Tsubaki: ...What is it this time...?
Mimori: Well, I had a request from one of the female students...... / I know it was of my own accord, but I thought it would help create a better campus for everyone, so...

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Mimori: ...I remodelled all the girls' toilets into luxury suites.
Tsubaki: DON'T GO AROUND RECONSTRUCTING THE BUILDING~~~~~!!! // Wait... wha...? // What IS all this?!!
Mimori: Oh, all the toilet seats are fully automated... // ...I made the cubicles larger, and also replaced all the sinks with larger, easier-to-use models. // As a result, the rooms now take up three times the floor space.
Tsubaki: How the heck did you manage that?! // Remember the three R's!! / Report - Relay - Review!! That's basic protocol!! / This is FAR beyond the sort of thing you should be implementing on your own!
Mimori: Well, in that case, I'll make my report now, and you can inspect the remodelled rooms in the process -
Tsubaki: NO...!!! // PRESIDENT~~~!!
Agata: Hmm...? Oh, is the meeting over? / Well, then, let's all keep up the good work in future. / Dismissed.
Tsubaki: PRESIDENT~~~~~~~~!!!

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Michiru: Ahh... // Would you look at the time...! // Tsubaki-chan, I think we should get moving down to the Principal's office. / Look, I've made the cake and everything.
Mimori: Ahhh, it looks wonderful~!
Tsubaki: ...Yes, you're right. We should get going.
Agata: Hmm? Is there something going on today?
Tsubaki: President... Today is the Principal's birthday, so we have plans to go and celebrate it. // The Principal should be over in Reception right now, dealing with a visitor, so we're all going to sneak into the Principal's office and give him a little surprise party... / You were the one who suggested it!
Agata: I did? Can't say I remember...
Tsubaki: You just spout these things on the spur of the moment, don't you!
Daisy: Try thinking, moron!
Tsubaki: We did prepare a cake, confectionery, and party poppers in advance for today, you know...
Agata: Yes, yes, of course, of course. // Well, you guys have fun, then!
Tsubaki: PRESIDENT~~~~!!

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Agata: Excuse us~!
Mimori: !! // Aaahhh!! // The Principal has been cursed!!
Michiru: ...No, he really hasn't...
Agata: ...A bust, eh...? / Was this always in here?
Tsubaki: No, I hear he finally had it made recently; he'd wanted one for a long time. // It's a very precious item to him. // Anyway, we don't have much time, so let's get things ready, shall we? // Unyuu, you keep watch outside for the Principal. // Now, when the Principal enters the room, on the President's count, we fire the party poppers and all shout "Happy Birthday!" together. We follow that up with "Lookin' sharp there!!"
Agata: ...We say what?
Tsubaki: ...That part was your idea too... // Oh, and President, you're the only one who hasn't signed the card yet, so if you could just do that now...
Agata: Gotcha.

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Agata: (Ugh... this is all a little tiring, really... / I must remember not to randomly suggest these things...)
Tsubaki: Shinba-san, over there. // Asahina, you're hiding over there.
Agata: Y'know, this statue doesn't really look all that much like him, does it?
Tsubaki: Really? / I thought it was a good likeness...
Michiru: Perhaps it's just the lack of glasses?
Agata: Hm, that could be it. / Especially with the blank eyes.
Tsubaki: Well, perhaps we could get the real thing to put his own glasses on the statue later and see.
Daisy: He looks like Colonel Sanders.
Agata: But yeah, let's see... // Maybe he'd look closer if I do this...? // Hmm?

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Agata: ...Oh, crap...
Michiru: WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING, AGATA?!!!
Tsubaki: N - Never mind that, let's just clean it off!! Quickly, before he gets here!!
Agata: Right! I'll go get some water!
Mimori: Ehm... I think that pen's permanent...
Tsubaki: PRESIDENT~~~~!!
Michiru: Okay! Okay, let's all calm down!
Daisy: We don't need to erase it.
Michiru: Huh?
Daisy: We can just alter it so that it isn't noticeable. // For instance, drawing in the eyes with the same pen.
Michiru: DAISY-CHAN?!! // DAISY-CHAN?!! / Why did you just do that?! What was that for? // You're just messing around, aren't you? Aren't you?!
Daisy: I did it on the spur of the moment.
Tsubaki: Oh, come ON~~~~~~!!!
Michiru: Look, the right eye's off and everything!!
Daisy: I used myself as the model.
Michiru: Well, it's sort of cute, but...!!
Tsubaki: So you WERE just messing around after all, weren't you!!

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Daisy: Well, I thought since we would be erasing it later anyway... / ...Hm? Don't tell me we actually can't...?
Michiru: No, we're erasing it!! / We're DEFINITELY erasing it at this point!
Tsubaki: Ahhhh... I need some kind of idea...
Agata: Tsubaki. // Can I leave yet?
Tsubaki: President?! // Now, this may be a little presumptuous of me, speaking to a superior, but just let me say... / WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING?!!
Agata: Well, I mean, do I really need to be here? I'm sure this will work out... / My horoscope this morning said that I wouldn't be exposed for graffiti-ing on a statue, so -
Tsubaki: WHAT CHANNEL WERE YOU WATCHING?!
Daisy: Come to think of it, I've heard of a good trick for erasing permanent marker. / Apparently if you trace over it with non-permanent marker and then wipe that off, the permanent marker can come off with it.
Michiru: ...That does sound like a clever sort of trick... / Well, I have a non-permanent marker here, so...
Tsubaki: Let's give it a try.
Agata: All right! Let's get tracing! / And then wiping!!

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Michiru: Will this do...?
Tsubaki: W... Well... / I... suppose that's right. // You seem to have been a little more bold than necessary with your tracing there...... but, well, we'll see, I suppose......
Michiru: ...He looks like a character out of a gag manga at this point...
Tsubaki: Aahh! The ink's started running, and now the Principal's crying black tears...!!
Agata: Let's get wiping! / Black tears and all, take it all off!
Agata/Tsubaki/Michiru: .........
Tsubaki: ............... / Well, I can't deny I had a feeling this would happen......
Michiru: This may have got a little out of control.
Agata: He looks like an old man with a burned face or something...

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Agata: What are you going to do, Tsubaki?!!
Tsubaki: What?! Me?!
Michiru: What are you going to do, Tsubaki-chan?!!
Daisy: What now?!
Tsubaki: Oh, like YOU can talk!! // Ah, come to think of it... // I've heard of a trick for situations like this myself. // You're supposed to rub the ink with potato crisps. // Apparently the oil content of the crisps leaks into the ink, and makes it easier to remove.
Agata: Right, let's go with that!
Tsubaki: What? / Are you sure?!
Agata: Well, it's all we've got! It's not like we've got anything to lose at this point!
Michiru: And thankfully, I happen to have a packet of crisps on me, too...
Agata: I...Is this right, do you think?
Michiru: They're seaweed-salted flavour, should that be all right?
Tsubaki: I... suppose......

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Agata/Michiru/Tsubaki: ...............
Michiru: ...We're doomed...... // Agh, this is just getting absolutely ridiculous!! / Why are we standing here rubbing potato crisps, of all things, onto the face of our school principal?!!
Agata: You say "principal"... he looks more like some kind of crazed performer at this point... // His ridiculous face scorched in burns and covered with pieces of cheap potato snacks... I can't even bear to look any more... // This is ridiculous!! What are you going to do, Tsubaki?!!
Michiru: Yes, it was your crazy idea that did this, Tsubaki-chan!
Daisy: Dead Or Take-Responsibility!
Tsubaki: I... I'll take full responsibility for the whole situation, and resign my post as Vice-President...
Agata: You can't do that!!
Michiru: It was a joke, all right? A joke! I'm sorry! / Man, you don't take teasing well, do you...?
Agata: He really is a lot like Fujisaki. // Right... At this point, there's only one thing left to do!

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Agata: We scrape.
Tsubaki: Scrape what?!
Agata: The Principal's face.
Michiru: Whaa?!!
Tsubaki: How can you say that with such a straight face?! / That idea's far too dangerous! Wait a minute, please!!
Agata: Don't worry - it'll just make his skin a little rougher in the end; it will actually be more realistic.
Tsubaki: President...!!
Agata: Hey, Daisy. Head down to J-son-sensei's room and fetch us something to scrape it down with, would you?
Daisy: Understood.

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Tsubaki: Are... are you sure we should really be using these for this...? / Wouldn't we be better off with sandpaper or something...?
Agata: I must admit, the same thought occurred to me... but there's no turning back now!
Michiru: Let's just do whatever we can.
Tsubaki/Agata/Michiru: ...............
Agata: ...We've certainly "done whatever we could"...
Michiru: W... We're doomed...
Tsubaki: We can't just give up! We have to think!
Agata: But... shouldn't the old guy himself be here soon...?
Mimori: Everyone~~! / The Principal's coming along now~~!
Tsubaki: HE'S HERE...!!

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Michiru: D... Do something, Mimorin!! / We can't let him in here now!!
Mimori: Is there something wrong? He's almost here, you know...
Tsubaki: Nghhh...! / We have to do something, people! We can't let him in here!!
Principal: Oh...? / If it isn't the lovely fellows from the Student Council! ...Did you want something?
Tsubaki: Principal~~!!! / Give me a repeated-sidestepping contest, now!!
[TN: "Hanpuku-yokotobi"... it's a kind of agility-endurance test. See YouTube video.]
Principal: Hmm? // Wahahah... I think I'll pass on that! // What is this about? // Is something going on in there? // Ahh!!
Tsubaki: Aaaaaghhhhhhhhhh!!
Agata: No, Daisy...!!
Michiru: You can't go attacking him!!
Tsubaki: Ah... / Of course!

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Tsubaki: Mr. Principal...! We heard today was your birthday, and...!!
Principal: Hm? // Ohh... wahahah! // So that's what all this is about, is it? / So you've been sneaking around behind my back... // And you don't want to let me in the room yet, is that it? // Wahahah! // Now I'm even more curious about what's in there...! // !!!
Agata: And... GO!!
Everyone: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

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Everyone: ..................
Agata: ...What now?
Michiru: Well, we've managed to knock him out quite splendidly... / But I don't see how we can hide this from him once he wakes up.
Agata: You think he'll forgive us if we apologise...? The statue's face is completely ruined...
Mimori: I've just spoken to someone from my place~!
Michiru: Oh? What's the word?
Mimori: The Unyuu Group will lend us their efforts to restore the statue as quickly as possible! // If they gather up the necessary craftspeople right away, they should be able to do it!
Michiru: ALL RI~~~~~GHT!!! // You've done it, Mimorin!! That's just like you!!
Agata: What did I say? Money is the answer to everything!!
Daisy: Cash Is Power!!
Mimorin: But... I'm afraid it doesn't look like it's possible in such a short timeframe.

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Mimorin: Perhaps if we had something for them to work from; anything with the shape of his face... they could create a new face from scratch...
Tsubaki: Aaaaghh...! / So it's no good......?!! // ............... // No, wait...!
Principal: Did it always have this expression...? // Lookin' sharp there!!
[Insert text: That smile(?!) looks great on you!!]